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Beshalach Discussion Topics

For further discussion of any of these questions, please email Rabbi Finkelstein.

1. What is the difference between the Red Sea incident and the ten plagues?
2. When have the Israelites truly achieved freedom?
3. What does the splitting of the sea represent or symbolize?
4. Exodus and plagues were necessary. Sinai was necessary. What is the point of the splitting of the sea? 
5. What became the eternal symbol of G-d's kindness to Israel, Exodus or the Red Sea? 
6. Which incident had a stronger effect on the consciousness of the nation?
7. Which one was supposed to have a stronger effect?
8. Why were the Israelites so uninvolved in the plagues?
9. What does this story say as a foundational story for the Jewish people?
10. Does it have any messages for the individual?